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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785023403321

Autore

Arthur J

Titolo

African Women Immigrants in the United States [[electronic resource] ] : Crossing Transnational Borders / / by J. Arthur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-67427-7

9786612674273

0-230-62391-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/6073

305.8966073

Soggetti

America—History

Asia—History

Sociology

Ethnology—Africa

Anthropology

History of the Americas

Asian History

Gender Studies

African Culture

Sociology, general

Africa, West Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Centering gender in African regional migration -- Passage from the savannah grasslands of Africa to America -- Gender and forced migration : rebuilding shattered lives -- Gender and transnational Black immigrant identities -- Gender, migration, and work -- Rethreading fertility decisions in new settings.

Sommario/riassunto

This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the



multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration.